Free flac software for mac

Located here is a basic decoder for Apple Lossless Audio Codec files (ALAC). ALAC is a proprietary lossless audio compression scheme. Apple never released any documents on the format.
What I provide here is a C implementation of a decoder, written from reverse engineering the file format. It turns out that most of the algorithms in the codec are fairly well known. ALAC uses an adaptive FIR prediction algorithm and stores the error values using a modified rice or golumb algorithm. Further details are in alac.c.

Although an encoder is not provided, by using the decoder as a sort of specification it should be fairly trivial to write an encoder. By exploiting other lossless audio encoders, such as FLAC, the task will be much easier. Although one wouldnt be able to copy the compression algorithms verbatim, as adaptive compression is used in ALAC and not in FLAC. There are, however, a bunch of academic papers on the issue.

The program located here will not be able to handle all ALAC files, it can only handle mono or stereo files. ALAC allows up to 8 channels. It should be trivial to finish the implementation once I find files that I can test it with. Likewise the decoder only supports 16bit sample sizes. Again, it should be trivial to fix.

The decoder is fairly self explanatory, it can read an ALAC stream from either a file or from stdin, and write it as raw PCM data or as a WAV file to either stdout or a file. In theory one should be able to stream data to the decoder.

The GeeXboX is no more than an awesome standalone media player. Why such a name ? Well, its main purpose is to play DivX movies and, as everybody usually call this kind of projects DivX boxes, well just prepended a "GeeX", cause thats for the geeks you all are ;-)
So, GeeXboX is a full operating system, running under Linux and based on the excellent MPlayer. No need for a hard drive, you just have to put the GeeXboX bootable CD into the CD-Drive of any Pentium-class computer to boot it. Moreover, GeeXboX is free software, created as open-source software. This means that everyone can modify it and build his own release of the GeeXboX.
You may wonder why you should have to boot another operating system to play your media files, but just think about the Mini-ITX platforms like VIA Epia/Eden or Shuttle barebones. Its now affordable to bring DivX to your home cinema, plugging this kind of computer directly to your TV !!
At the time of the first development releases (Dec. 2002), it was only capable of playing DivX movies, but now, nearly every kind of media file can be played with GeeXboX, with the OS supporting :
- MPEG 1/2 movies (MPG files, VCDs, DVDs ...)
- MPEG 4 movies (DivX, XviD ...)
- RealMedia and Windows Media movies.
- OggMedia streams
- Matroska streams
- Audio streams like : MP3, Ogg/Vorbis, WAV (AudioCD), AC3 ...
GeeXboX is an operating system but you still need something to boot on ;-) Youre lucky, GeeXboX is based on MPlayer, which can be considered as one of the less cpu-dependent movie players, thanks to the use of FFMpeg for decoding movies.
Enhancements:
- System :
- Support for the PowerPC (MAC) architecture.
- Linux updated to 2.6.12.3 version.
- Use of UDEV to automatically populate the /dev directory.
- Remove of the now useless SuperMount patch.
- Use IDE CD driver instead of the old ide-scsi emulation layer.
- Support for CPU frequency scaling for supported CPU (generally laptops) to minimize power consumption.
- Use LZMA algorithm instead of gZip for compressing iso (far slighter).
- New HotPlug script : hot autodiscovery and mount/removal of external devices.
- Reduce CD drives spin to 8x each time a disc is inserted in (previous versions did it for boot media only).
- Toolchain :
- Complete rework of the sources tree (splitted init.d scripts and patches now are in packages directory, allowing a successfull build of old versions).
- Toolchain can now build distribution for different architectures.
- Toolchain can now optimize distribution compilation for specific CPU.
- Player :
- Updated MPlayer to 1.0pre7 (support for H.264 video and AAC audio codecs).
- Can play IFO files from disk to read complete DVD structure.
- Keep current path in OSD after the end of a file (no more need to do a complete browse each time you play a file).
- Use cvidix video output mode instead of vesa:vidix by default.
- Support for radio cards.
- Support for FLAC files.
- Support for MusePack codec (.mpc files).
- Avoid some crashes when pausing/resuming a movie with remote control.
- Audio :
- ALSA drivers ported to 1.0.9b
- Fix some SPDIF configuration problems.
- No more need to force sound rate for reluctant sound cards.
- Can choose which soundcard to use (default is #0), output mode (SPDIF or Analog) and AC3/DTS decompression method (Hardware or Software) through the ISO generator.
- Added drivers for Emu10k1X chipsets, SB Audigy LS and SB Live! 24bit cards.
- Fix some ALSA bug with Nforce2 chipsets.
- Support for Intel High Definition Audio (Azalia) chipsets.
- Video :
- Removed buggy Savage vidix driver (works fine using VESA).
- Fix vidix support for some Rage128 / Radeon cards.
- More chipsets supported by atitvout : Mobile M3, Radeon Mobility, Radeon Mobility 9000, RV200.
- Drivers :
- Support for QStor SATA controllers.
- Use GPLd RT2500 driver instead of Ralink one.
- Support for CX88 analog TV chipsets (BT8xx successor).
- Support for in-built multi-LUN X-in-1 card readers.
- Support for XboX gamepads.
- Networking :
- Security fix : FTP / Telnet / HTTP services (anonymous root) are closed by default : use generator to open requested ones.
- Support for the CIFS protocol.
- Can setup network and Samba configuration directly through installator.
- Samba updated to 3.0.14a.
- Can manually set DNS server to use.
- Faster Samba shares mount (parallelize mount processes for multiple servers).
- Internationalization :
- Use TrueType fonts for subtitles.
- Use UTF-8 as default charset.
- Support for different charsets for menu and subtitles.
- Miscellaneous :
- LIRC updated to 0.7.2.
- Support for the DigiMatrix remote controller.
- New FLTK graphical ISO generator for both Win32 and Linux.
- Added analog TV channels scanner in installator.
- Added HTTP server for remote Web management of GeeXboX : web designers are fully welcomed to build the Web interface.
- Non-free codecs package is now directly available on our server.

jRipper can encode and decode Wav, Flac, MP3, Ogg, AAC(M4A) formats. It is an frontend to cdda2wav, lame, oggenc/oggdec, flac and faac/faad programs.
jRipper is an cd ripper and audio converter made in java.
jRipper can load track names for an CD from freedb.org by http or using the cdda2wav program.
Enhancements:
- Flac support added.
- AAC(M4A) support added.
- Transcoding between different formats.
- Code cleanup.
- Bug fixes.
- Internationalization support was removed.

MusicMagic helps you manage your digital music collection.
It can organize by artist, album, or genre and allows you to manage your music based on your unique musical preferences.
With the selection of a single song, a play list consisting of hours of music can be created to suit any mood or even event.
Main features:
- Custom playlist generation
- Automatic music analysis
- Find just the right music for portable players
- Supports MP3, WMA*, AAC*, OGG, FLAC, & WAV
- Unicode support for international players
- Supports large music collections, including independent, classical and little known music.
Enhancements:
- Integrated media player to listen to playlists within MusicMagic
- Similar artists and albums displayed in Discovery window
- Acoustic scan to preview samples from your library
- Support for UPnP devices
- Power Toys and Power Search
- Custom tagging capabilities for advanced users
- Run MusicMagic as a server.

Ambisonics Player is a simple player for ambisonics files. Ambisonics Player is programmed in Java, which means that (in theory) should be able to run on all platforms that java runs on. Java-sound must also be implemented on the platform.
It has been developed on Windows XP running Java 1.5, and also tested on linux 64-bit system (Gentoo AMD64) using sun-jdk-1.5.0.03. So these combinations should be fine. I dont think it works with earlier java-versions than 1.5, atleast not very good.
Main features:
- Plays 1.,2. and 3. order soundfiles in B-format.
- Files in wav,aiff,flac and ogg format supported (ogg-files caneven be streamed).
- Floating point support (for WAV-files only).
- Decode ambisonics to speaker-feeds or binaural stereo files by using HRTF and decode to virtual speaker-array.
- Play directly to soundcard outputs or save to file.

Max (Macintosh Audio for OS X) is a Mac OS X application for ripping and encoding MP3 audio files.
For advanced users, Max allows control over how many threads are used for encoding, what type of error correction is used for audio extraction, and what parameters are used for each of the various encoders.
Main features:
- High-quality MP3 encoding using the LAME encoding engine, with full support for user configuration
- Integrated with FreeDB to automatically acquire artist and track names using libcddb
- Output tagged with ID3v2.4 tags using TagLib
- Growl support for notification of ripping and encoding status
- Automatic detection of multi-artist albums
- Multithreaded encoding, with user-configurable number of threads
- User-configurable output file naming
- Best of all, Max is free software distributed under the terms of the GPL.
Enhancements:
New Features
- Dutch localization
- Ogg Vorbis encoder changed to aoTuV
- Added new basic (non-error correcting) ripper
- Added new comparison ripper
- Added WavPack support
- Added encoder profiles with nicknames
- Added ability to encode using arbitrary encoders
- Added support for non-16 bit audio
- Added support for non-44.1kHz audio
- Added option to save album art as a file
- Added option to create an iTunes playlist for the added files
- Improved preferences interface
- Upgraded libsndfile to 1.0.16
Bug Fixes:
- Fixed FLAC encoding bug for Intel Macs
- Fixed Speex encoding bug for PPC Macs
- Cleaned up handling of FLAC/Ogg Vorbis comment and year fields.